Man charged with trespassing while observing quarry blasting

Westbrook police arrested a man on the charge of criminal trespass on Saturday for being on property owned by Central Maine Power Company.

Warren Knight, 53, was arrested after he refused to leave, Westbrook police said. Knight's family owns Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook. He told police he was on the property to observe Pike Industries' blasting at its Spring Street quarry.

Smiling Hill Farm is near Spring Street.

The farm was one local business to file a lawsuit to nullify a consent agreement between the city of Westbrook and Idexx Laboratories had with Pike Industries to continue blasting at the Spring Street quarry. The Maine Supreme Court overrturned the consent agreement in 2012.

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